A jury can consider the future dangerousness of a man convicted of murdering two police officers when it decides whether he should get the death penalty even though his only other possible sentence is life without parole, a Brooklyn federal judge has ruled.
Eastern District Judge Nicholas Garaufis (See Profile) ruled on Feb. 15 in People v. Wilson, 04-CR-1016, that, while the defendant, Ronell Wilson, may move to exclude specific evidence of future dangerousness from consideration, he is not entitled to a "blanket ruling" excluding all such evidence.
